Sine N. Just is Professor of Strategic Communication in the Department of Communication and Arts at Roskilde University.

“Just delivers a compelling answer to the burning question of how to sustain meaningful encounters with difference in today’s communication landscape. Ancient ideas meet new imperatives in this fresh interdisciplinary take on what rhetoric can do.” Karen Lee Ashcraft, University of Colorado Boulder

• 1. The Closing of the Rhetorical Mind2. Press Play: Organizing Digital Communication3. The Digital Transformation of the Public Sphere4. Controversial Encounters of the First Kind: The Theory and Practice of Controversy5. Controversial Encounters of the Second Kind: Sweet Consensus and Nasty Conflict6. Controversial Encounters of the Third Kind: Towards Automated Persuasion?7. Affective Alternatives: Opening the Rhetorical Mind8. Make Disagreement Good Again

Sine N. Just is Professor of Strategic Communication in the Department of Communication and Arts at Roskilde University.

“Just delivers a compelling answer to the burning question of how to sustain meaningful encounters with difference in today’s communication landscape. Ancient ideas meet new imperatives in this fresh interdisciplinary take on what rhetoric can do.” Karen Lee Ashcraft, University of Colorado Boulder

• 1. The Closing of the Rhetorical Mind2. Press Play: Organizing Digital Communication3. The Digital Transformation of the Public Sphere4. Controversial Encounters of the First Kind: The Theory and Practice of Controversy5. Controversial Encounters of the Second Kind: Sweet Consensus and Nasty Conflict6. Controversial Encounters of the Third Kind: Towards Automated Persuasion?7. Affective Alternatives: Opening the Rhetorical Mind8. Make Disagreement Good Again

Sine N. Just is Professor of Strategic Communication in the Department of Communication and Arts at Roskilde University.

“Just delivers a compelling answer to the burning question of how to sustain meaningful encounters with difference in today’s communication landscape. Ancient ideas meet new imperatives in this fresh interdisciplinary take on what rhetoric can do.” Karen Lee Ashcraft, University of Colorado Boulder

• 1. The Closing of the Rhetorical Mind2. Press Play: Organizing Digital Communication3. The Digital Transformation of the Public Sphere4. Controversial Encounters of the First Kind: The Theory and Practice of Controversy5. Controversial Encounters of the Second Kind: Sweet Consensus and Nasty Conflict6. Controversial Encounters of the Third Kind: Towards Automated Persuasion?7. Affective Alternatives: Opening the Rhetorical Mind8. Make Disagreement Good Again